Hunting El Chapo

The Inside Story of the American Lawman Who Captured the World's Most-Wanted Drug Lord

Publisher Description

A blend of Manhunt, Killing Pablo, and Zero Dark Thirty, Andrew Hogan and Douglas Century’s sensational investigative high-tech thriller—soon to be a major motion picture from Sony—chronicles a riveting chapter in the twentieth-century drug wars: the exclusive inside story of the American lawman and his dangerous eight-year hunt that captured El Chapo—the world’s most wanted drug kingpin who evaded the law for more than a decade.

In 2006, fresh out of the D.E.A. Academy, Hogan heads west to Arizona where he immediately plunges into a series of gripping undercover adventures, all unknowingly placing him on the trail of Guzmán, the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, a Forbes billionaire and Public Enemy No. 1 in the United States. Six years later, as head of the D.E.A.’s Sinaloa Cartel desk in Mexico City, Hogan finds his life and Chapo’s are ironically, on parallel paths: they’re both obsessed with the details.

In a recasting of the classic American Western on the global stage, Hunting El Chapo takes us on Hogan’s quest to achieve the seemingly impossible, from infiltrating El Chapo’s inner circle to leading a white-knuckle manhunt with an elite brigade of trusted Mexican Marines—racing door-to-door through the cartel’s stronghold and ultimately bringing the elusive and murderous king-pin to justice.

This cinematic crime story following the relentless investigative work of Hogan and his team unfolds at breakneck speed, taking the reader behind the scenes of one of the most sophisticated and dangerous counter-narcotics operations in the history of the United States and Mexico.

APPLE BOOKS REVIEW

Billionaire crime boss Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán, better known as El Chapo, moved tonnes of cocaine and marijuana throughout South and North America for decades. DEA special agent Andrew Hogan's warts-and-all memoir of his hunt for the unseen and seemingly untouchable drug lord reveals both the white-knuckle thrills and the daily grind of the investigation. Hogan details moments of doubt and triumph—and explains how he overcame police corruption and inter-agency rivalries. By the end of this eye-opening glimpse into modern detective work, we (like Hogan) became strangely impressed by El Chapo's compulsive secrecy.